Similar words: permafrost, prima facie, afire, afield, loafing, fiat, mala fide, data file. Meaning: ['mæfɪə] 
n. 1. a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia 2. a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century 3. any tightly knit group of trusted associates.
n. 1. a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia 2. a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century 3. any tightly knit group of trusted associates. 
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31) She was also one of the founder members of a super pool of judges which brought more than 450 Mafia members to trial.
32) Heavily backed by the Catholic hierarchy, it had an agenda of combating Mafia crime.
33) Rogers is accused of being in cahoots with the mafia.
34) Bronson will return to the role of Paul Kersey to take on the Mafia in the latest sequel to the vigilante saga.
35) He has success fully steered the Mafia through a seven-year crackdown.
36) He is a vain, devious showman accused of bribery, tax evasion, fraud and mafia connections.
37) Who did they represent - a government, the Mafia, some drug ring?
38) The building trades are also riddled with extortionate practices, but here the influence of the Mafia is probably exaggerated.
39) Berlusconi was enraged by Travaglio's claim that he had colluded with the Mafia.
40) The Mafia struck again on Saturday when a detective was shot dead near Agrigento in Sicily.
41) The Mafia was as much at home in Britain as coconut trees or rattlesnakes.
42) This is the latest in a series of Mafia killings.
43) He disappeared from a parking lot while waiting for a Mafia contact, from where flashbacks of his past are reconstructed.
44) But the drug mafia also has infiltrated other law-enforcement agencies, the army captain alleged.
45) If the general public knows anything about the construction industry, it knows that the Mafia have a role to play.
46) The Mafia makes most of its money from prostitution and extorting money from small businesses.
47) The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! Jerry Seinfeld 
48) Union leaders were accused of being in league with the Mafia.
49) Cossiga commented publicly on Galloni's apparent incapacity to handle complex Mafia and drug-trafficking investigations.
50) Linked to the Mafia he was also behind counterfeit currency scams and drug trafficking.
51) The drug mafia have become a new economic elite, beyond government control.
52) The Mafia uses threats of physical violence or death to silence any opposition.
53) No, Uncle, what I heard was that Daddy did favors for the Mafia characters he grew up with.
54) Before it kills, the Mafia first isolates and denigrates its victims.
55) He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
56) Or will the 40-year economic blockade be maintained simply to satisfy the second-generation Miami mafia?
57) Genotti was thought to be number two in the Sicilian Mafia hierarchy.
58) The report, drawn from evidence given by supergrasses,[www.Sentencedict.com] identified those whom the Mafia considered allies or potential allies.
59) One of the country's top judges has been murdered by the Mafia.
60) The Mafia was supposed to be originally a subversive secret society.
More similar words: permafrost, prima facie, afire, afield, loafing, fiat, mala fide, data file, bona fide, sofia, make a fire, bona fides, fiance, fiasco, raffia, terra firma, aficionado, ruffian, fiancee, defiant, fit as a fiddle, defiance, fiat money, defiantly, drink like a fish, verifiable, justifiably, justifiable, identifiable, in defiance of.